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Hawken Gets Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Support

Hawken is a fun mech shooter. Hawken with John Carmack and Palmer Luckey's 3D virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift, sounds Everlasting Gobstopper amazing. Are you ready to look around and see the inside of your mech before exploring a richly detailed sci-fi world? You'll be able to do just that when Hawken launches with Rift support on December 12.

It's the final week of the wildly successful Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign. Originally seeking $250,000, the project is now closing in on $2 million with four days left to go. As a last push to gain even more backers (there are over 7,800 as of this posting), Luckey and Meteor Entertainment made the Hawken announcement today.

"When people try Hawken in Rift, they'll understand all this hype, all the potential, what it means for the future of virtual reality," Luckey said.

So as of now, there are two games for Oculus Rift: Doom 3 BFG Edition and Hawken. Not to sound like a gushing technophile, but those two alone are almost worth the projected $300 asking price. That's how promising this tech looks. If Bethesda comes out and says a patch for Skyrim will make it VR compatible, I might have to not buy it for fear of spending my waking hours inside virtual worlds.

What's your take on Oculus Rift-enabled Hawken, and what other games would you like to see jump on the VR bandwagon?